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    Scattered Poems
    Scattered Poems
    Scattered Poems
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    Scattered Poems

    By Jack Kerouac

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    Just as he upended the conventions of the novel with On the Road, Jack Kerouac revolutionized American poetry in this ingenious collection

    Bringing together selections from literary journals and his private notebooks, Jack Kerouac’s Scattered Poems exemplifies the Beat Generation icon’s innovative approach to language. Kerouac’s poems, populated by hitchhikers, Chinese grocers, Buddhist saints, and cultural figures from Rimbaud to Harpo Marx, evoke the primal and the sublime, the everyday and the metaphysical. Scattered Poems, which includes the playfully instructive “How to Meditate,” the sensory “San Francisco Blues,” and an ode to Kerouac’s fellow Beat Allen Ginsberg, is rich in striking images and strident urgency.

    Kerouac’s widespread influences feel new and fresh in these poems, which echo the rhythm of improvisational jazz music, and the centuries-old structure of Japanese haiku. In rebelling against the dry rules and literary pretentiousness he perceived in early twentieth-century poetry, Kerouac pioneered a poetic style informed by oral tradition, driven by concrete language with neither embellishment nor abstraction, and expressed through spontaneous, uncensored writing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateMar 22, 2016
    ISBN9781504034005
    Scattered Poems
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    Jack Kerouac

    Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) es el novelista más destacado y emblemático de la Generación Beat. En Anagrama se han publicado sus obras fundamentales: En el camino, Los subterráneos, Los Vagabundos del Dharma, La vanidad de los Duluoz y En la carretera. El rollo mecanografiado original, además de Cartas, la selección de su correspondencia con Allen Ginsberg, y, con William S. Burroughs, Y los hipopótamos se cocieron en sus tanques.

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    • 3/5
      More interesting from a historical perspective than from a literary one.
    • 5/5
      I'm down for anything Kerouac, so this little book of random pieces from other publications and journals is a nice collection to read now and again.I picked this one up from the small local bookstore in Emerald Isle one summer and keep it near at hand.Best part for me is the poem for Harpo Marx and the collection of Western Haiku (including Kerouac's explanation of traditional haiku and the difference in writing a western haiku). Good stuff.
    • 4/5
      I've learned that I love Jack Kerouac's poetry more than I do his prose.

      I know, I'm a sinner.

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